University of South Africa

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of South Africa*

Titles

Adapting Health Communication to Cultural Needs: Optimizing documents in South-African health communication on HIV and AIDS

Edited by Piet Swanepoel & Hans Hoeken

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

2008. v, 178 pp. | edited volume

Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997

Edited by Hubert Cuyckens & Britta E. Zawada

Subjects Cognition and language | Semantics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 177] 2001. xxvii, 296 pp. | edited volume

Gaby, Alice 2026 Yesterday’s eve: Patterns of polysemy among the deictic temporals of Australian languages

Keywords: colexification | semantic change | temporal adverbs

In: Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach, Brdar-Szabó, Rita & Mario Brdar (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 81] pp. 102–113

Muhammad, Saima Faisal & Josephine Olufunmilayo Alexander 2026 Language and equality inside the classroom: Translanguaging practices in a private university in Pakistan

Keywords: equality | use of language | qualitative | private university | linguistic repertoire | translanguaging | strategies

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 12:1 pp. 23–47 | article

Álvarez-Mosquera, Pedro, Luisa María González Rodríguez & Ramiro Durán-Martínez 2025 Students’ and teachers’ perspectives on attention to diversity in assessment practices in Spanish primary education bilingual programs

Keywords: assessment | attention to diversity | bilingual education | feedback | CLIL

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education | Online First Publication, 28 pp. | article | open access

Crane, Thera Marie, Remah Lubambo, M Petrus Mabena, Cordelia Nkwinika, Muhle Sibisi & Onelisa Slater 2024 What can be said?: Variation among expressions of modal possibility in a South African language cluster

Keywords: modal possibility | South African Bantu languages | Nguni | Xitsonga | grammaticalization

Studies in Language 49:1 pp. 44–92 | article | open access

Chabata, Emmanuel, Zvinashe Mamvura & Pedzisai Mashiri 2024 Mobile philosophies: A case of inscriptions on public transport vehicles (kombis) used as entrepreneurial names in Harare, Zimbabwe

Keywords: kombi | inscription | operational name | Harare | mobile philosophy

International Journal of Language and Culture 10:2 pp. 269–287 | article

Völkel, Svenja, Sambulo Ndlovu & Nico Nassenstein 2024 Naming and labelling contexts of cultural importance in Africa

International Journal of Language and Culture 10:2 pp. 145–150 | introduction | open access

Makaudze, Godwin & Vusi Musa Magongo 2024 The dialectics of sport and history: Commemorative naming of selected stadia in the Kingdom of Eswatini

Keywords: sport | history | commemorative naming | stadia | Eswatini | linguistic landscaping | etymology | decoloniality

International Journal of Language and Culture 10:2 pp. 191–208 | article

Ndlovu, Sambulo 2024 The toponym Bulawayo and ideologies of Ndebele language purism in Zimbabwe

Keywords: Bulawayo | language purism | language ideology | Ndebele | transphonologization

International Journal of Language and Culture 10:2 pp. 209–223 | article

Martínez Lirola, María 2021 A visual critical discourse analysis of women representation in Dolce & Gabbana advertising

Keywords: visual critical discourse analysis | gender studies | advertising | stereotypes

In: Discourse Studies in Public Communication, Crespo-Fernández, Eliecer (ed.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 92] pp. 199–218

Fernández Planas, Ana Ma., Paolo Roseano, Wendy Elvira-García, Josefina Carrera Sabaté & Domingo Román Montes de Oca 2020 From a perceptual point of view, is there prosodic continuity between languages in contact?

Keywords: AMPER | perception | dialectometry

Spanish in Context 16:3 pp. 543–572 | article

Martínez Celdrán, Eugenio & Paolo Roseano 2020 Stress clash in Spanish, Catalan, and Friulian from a prosodic perspective

Keywords: stress clash | deaccenting | prosody

Spanish in Context 16:3 pp. 475–522 | article

Álvarez-Mosquera, Pedro 2019 Young Coloureds’ implicit attitudes towards two historically White English accents in the South African context: A case study

Keywords: South African English | language attitudes | Implicit Association Test | Coloured South Africans | social distance | accents

English World-Wide 40:3 pp. 325–344 | article

van Heerden, Chantelle Gray 2017 Ethico-aesthetics and the machinic repetition of literature in translation

Keywords: ethico-aesthetics | Deleuze and Guattari | Ingrid Winterbach | machinic repetition | mechanical reproduction

Translation and Interpreting Studies 12:1 pp. 71–90 | article

Sampson, Geoffrey 2016 Review of The Crucible of Language: How Language and Mind Create Meaning by Vyvyan Evans (2015)

Language and Dialogue 6:2 pp. 329–336 | book review

Sampson, Geoffrey 2014 Review of Linguistics and Evolution: A developmental approach by Julie Tetel Andresen (2014)Review of The Origins of Language: A slim guide by James R. Hurford (2014)

Language and Dialogue 4:3 pp. 455–464 | book review

Terblanche, Lize 2013 Review of Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes: Bridging a Paradigm Gap. edited by Joybrato Mukherjee & Marianne Hundt (2011)

English World-Wide 34:3 pp. 365–369 | book review

Sampson, Geoffrey 2014 A counterexample to homophony avoidance

Diachronica 30:4 pp. 579–591 | article

Sampson, Geoffrey 2013 One man’s norm is another’s metaphor: Patrick Hanks: Lexical analysis. Norms and exploitations

Keywords: semantics | corpora | word-sense | creativity | norms | lexicography | exploitations

Language and Dialogue 3:3 pp. 437–456 | article

Botha, Werner & Lawrie A. Barnes 2014 Variation in the use of sentence final particles in Macau Cantonese

Keywords: Sentence Final Particles | Social Network Theory | Macau Cantonese | External Linguistic Constraints | Language Variation

Chinese Language and Discourse 4:2 pp. 277–296 | article

Swanepoel, Piet, Marije Burger, Anne Loohuis & Carel Jansen 2008 6. Promoting VCT among South African students: Are we missing the message?

In: Adapting Health Communication to Cultural Needs: Optimizing documents in South-African health communication on HIV and AIDS, Swanepoel, Piet & Hans Hoeken (eds.)  p. 89

Jansen, Carel, Hans Hoeken, Dineke Ehlers & Frans van der Slik 2008 7. Cultural differences in the perceptions of fear and efficacy in South Africa

In: Adapting Health Communication to Cultural Needs: Optimizing documents in South-African health communication on HIV and AIDS, Swanepoel, Piet & Hans Hoeken (eds.)  pp. 107–128

Finlayson, Rosalie, Marné Pienaar & Sarah Slabbert 2008 Metaphors of transformation: The new language of education in South Africa

In: Metaphors for Learning: Cross-cultural Perspectives, Berendt, Erich A. (ed.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 22] pp. 225–243

Swanepoel, Piet 2003 Review of by M. Kreuter, D. Farrell, L. Olevitch & L. BrennanBarbara. K. Rimer (2000)

Document Design 4:3 pp. 282–284 | book review

Poulos, George 2002 Review of Bantu historical linguistics: Theoretical and empirical perspectives edited by Jean-Marie Hombert & Larry M. Hyman (1999)

Diachronica 18:1 pp. 150–166 | book review

Msimang, C. Themba & George Poulos 2008 The ideophone in Zulu: A re-examination of conceptual and descriptive notions

In: Ideophones, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard & Christa Kilian-Hatz (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 44] pp. 235–249

Cluver, August D. de V. 2000 Changing Language Attitudes: The Stigmatisation of Khoekhoegowap in Namibia

Language Problems and Language Planning 24:1 p. 77 | article

Swanepoel, Piet 1996 Review of Essays on Terminology by Alain ReyJuan C SagerBruno de Bessé (1995)

Terminology 3:1 pp. 177–179 | book review

Cluver, August D. de V. 1994 Review of Autochtone taalminderheden: juridische en bestuurlijke verkenningen edited by D. Gorter, J. G. Van Run & H. De Vries (1990)

Language Problems and Language Planning 18:2 pp. 165–170 | book review

Zawada, Britta E. & Piet Swanepoel 1994 On the empirical adequacy of terminological concept theories: The case for prototype theory

Keywords: Classical Theory | Experientialist Epistemology | Interactional Attributes | Mineral Species | Objectivist Epistemology | Concept Definitions | Prototype Theory

Terminology 1:2 pp. 253–275 | article

Cluver, August D. de V. 1992 Language Planning Models for a Post-Apartheid South Africa

Language Problems and Language Planning 16:2 pp. 105–136 | article

Cluver, August D. de V. 1991 A Systems Approach to Language Planning: The Case of Namibia

Language Problems and Language Planning 15:1 pp. 43–64 | article

Hendrikse, A.P. 1989 Syntactic Structures as Pragmatic Options

Studies in Language 13:2 pp. 333–379 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.